Life for teenage Welsh taekwondo star Jade Jones has been transformed in the last 12 days since she became Great Britain’s youngest ever Olympic champion.

SHE has been given a Jaguar car, asked to drape herself over a cooker for Hello magazine and had rapper Dizzy Rascal ask her for a photograph.

Life for teenage Welsh taekwondo star Jade Jones has been transformed in the last 12 days since she became Great Britain’s youngest ever Olympic champion.

This is even before the 19-year-old gold medallist returns to Flint for an open bus tour next Saturday and has a leisure centre named after her, the Flint Pavilion centre, which will be re-branded in her honour ahead of its autumn re-opening.

All this represents a hectic couple of weeks for the North Wales martial arts ace since her life-changing golden night at London’s Excel Centre.

The latest leg of the North Wales martial arts ace’s new life took her to the Celtic Manor resort yesterday, where she reflected on events since her life-changing golden night at London’s Excel Centre.

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